Universities Prepare Students for Socially-Conscious Careers The American economy has traditionally been divided into three sectors: government, for-profit businesses and non-profit charities. In more recent years, students of American business have

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Todays episode concerns a what-you-may-have-been-wondering-about topic. That sure was a mouthful, and it illustrates the problem of stacked modifiers, which occurs when you string together too many words to describe a noun at the end of the mouthful.

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Grammar Girl here. Today guest-writer Bonnie Trenga is going to help us take a break from serious grammar and instead delve into the world of comedysome intentional, some not. Groucho Marx said it best: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. H

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By Franz Wild Abidjan 20 April 2006 The Nigerian university staff union says its members' working conditions have dropped below acceptable levels, and the government is interfering in academic affairs

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Former Bosnian Serb leader one of three masterminds accused of designing Bosnia genocide Andre de Nesnera 23 November 2009 Wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appears at the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague to face war crimes ch

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(39) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(十一月)

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is misplaced modifiers. Of all the writing errors you can make, misplaced modifiers are among the most likely to confuse your readers, but they're also kind of fun because misplaced modifiers can give your sentences s

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